Difference between revisions of "Activities"

Latest revision as of 09:20, 14 August 2018

Please see the Sugar Activity Library for a nearly complete list of activities that are available for Sugar.

Learners

(Sugar users are learners.)

Learner applications in Sugar are called Activities. They are software packages that automatically save your work—producing specific instances of the Activity that can be resumed at a later time. A specific Activity instance is a Journal event (see this discussion of The Notion of "Keeping"). Many Activities support learner collaboration, where multiple learners may be invited to join a collective Activity session.

Feedback

See this page olpc:Feedback Actividades for comments and recommendations. (English readers may find the English link on the Google translations bar of that page helpful.)

Questions and answers

The Activity Team's Frequently Asked Questions page has many developer-oriented questions, but Sugar Learners should post their general Activity-related questions to the team on this page. Questions about a specific Activity should be posted on the discussion page for that Activity available below.

Developers & Testers

Please see the Activity Team for developer information.
Please see the Testing/Activity Test Table for tester information.

Sugar Activities

See Category:Activities for wiki pages of actual activities.

Please add new activity documentation at GitHub. Read How to edit Help and contribute.

Below is a list of activity home pages:

Running GNU/Linux Applications Under Sugar

See Running Linux Applications Under Sugar for a discussion of traditional GNU/Linux applications in Sugar.

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-== Activities ==
+<noinclude></noinclude>
+Please see the [http://activities.sugarlabs.org '''Sugar Activity Library'''] for a nearly complete list of activities that are available for Sugar.
-Sugar applications are called [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities Activities]. This is a list of some Activities that are installed by default. There is a proposal for an [[Activity portal]].
+== Learners ==
+(Sugar users are '''''learners'''''.)
+Learner applications in Sugar are called '''[[Human Interface Guidelines/Activities | Activities]]'''.  They are software packages that automatically save your work&mdash;producing specific instances of the Activity that can be resumed at a later time. A specific Activity instance is a [[Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/The_Journal| Journal]] event (see this discussion of [[Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/The_Journal#The_Notion of "Keeping"|The Notion of "Keeping"]]).  Many Activities support learner [[Collaboration|collaboration]], where multiple learners may be invited to join a collective Activity session.
-<div style="float:left">
+== Feedback ==
-__TOC__
+See this page [[olpc:Feedback Actividades]] for comments and recommendations. (English readers may find the English link on the Google translations bar of that page helpful.)
-</div>
-<table border="0">
+=== Questions and answers ===
-<tr>
+The  [[Activity Team]]'s [[Activity Team/FAQ|Frequently Asked Questions]] page has many developer-oriented questions, but Sugar Learners should post their general Activity-related questions to the team [[Talk:Activity Team/FAQ |on this page]].  Questions about a specific Activity should be posted on the discussion page for that Activity available below.
-<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
-[[Image:activity-journal.png|40px]]
-=== Journal===
-Object and activity browser
-</td>
-<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
+== Developers & Testers ==
-[[Image:activity-pippy.png|40px]]
+* Please see the [[Activity Team]] for developer information.
-=== Pippy===
+* Please see the [[Testing/Activity Test Table]] for tester information.
-Python Programming language/environment
-</td>
-<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
+== Sugar Activities ==
-[[Image:activity-web.png|40px]]
+See [[:Category:Activities]] for wiki pages of actual activities.
-=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Browse Browse] ===
-Web browser based on Mozilla Firefox
-</td></tr>
-<tr>
-<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
-[[Image:activity-etoys.png|40px]]
-=== Etoys===
-Learning / programming / authoring environment
-</td>
-<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
-[[Image:activity-read.png|40px]]
-=== Read===
-Book/PDF reader
-</td>
-<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
-[[Image:activity-turtleart.png|40px]]
-=== Turtle Art===
-Pseudo-Logo graphical programming language
-</td></tr>
-<tr>
-<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
-[[Image:activity-write.png|40px]]
-=== Write===
-Word processor</td>
-<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
-[[Image:activity-calculate.png|40px]]
-=== Calculate===
-Basic calculator
-</td>
-<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
-[[Image:activity-news.png|40px]]
-=== News Reader===
-News reader
-</td></tr>
-<tr>
-<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
-[[Image:activity-measure.png|40px]]
-=== Measure===
-Oscilloscope and Data Logging
-</td>
-<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
-[[Image:activity-draw.png|40px]]
-=== Paint===
-Simple paint activity
-</td>
-<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
-[[Image:activity-acousticmeasure.png|40px]]
-=== Distance===
-Measure distance between two laptops
-</td></tr>
-<tr>
-<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
-[[Image:activity-record.png|40px]]
-=== Record===
-Still, video, and audio capture
-</td>
-<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
-[[Image:activity-analyze.png|40px]]
-=== Analyze===
-An activity version of the Sugar analyze tool
-</td>
-<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
-[[Image:activity-log.png|40px]]
-=== Log===
-An activity version of the Sugar logging tool
-</td></tr>
-<tr>
-<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
-[[Image:activity-terminal.png|40px]]
-=== Terminal===
-An activity version of the Sugar terminal
-</td>
-<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
-[[Image:activity-tamtamjam.png|40px]]
-=== TamTam===
-Music composition and synthesis.
-</td>
-<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
-=== And more ===
-[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/GCompris Dozens more are available].
-</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
+{{warning | Please add new activity documentation at GitHub. Read [https://help.sugarlabs.org/en/how_to_help.html How to edit Help and contribute].}}
-=Running Linux Applications Under Sugar=
+Below is a list of activity home pages:
+{{Special:PrefixIndex/{{PAGENAME}}/}}
-There are two ways to run Linux applications as Activities under Sugar (meaning you don't need to use Terminal to load them):
+== Running GNU/Linux Applications Under Sugar ==
-*'''Sugar Coating''' - Making Linux apps run under Sugar, but not modifying them to take advantage of Sugar's collaborative capabilities
-*'''Sugarizing''' - A fully integrated Linux application, re-engineered to take advantage of Sugar's advanced collaboration abilities
-===Sugar Coating Activities===
+See [[Running Linux Applications Under Sugar]] for a discussion of traditional GNU/Linux applications in Sugar.
-To run Linux apps under Sugar (i.e. making them to run in the Sugar interface, without the collaboration and other Sugar integration programmed into them), read these instructions on [[Running Linux Applications Under Sugar]].
-===Sugarizing Activities===
-To be written.
+[[Category:Activities]]
-=Useful Linux Applications=
-===VLC Media Player===
-;VLC: The VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, flv, avi, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.  It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.; the VLC Player is considered to be better by some users then MPlayer because it offer more settings, options and features. There is also no need to run it from Terminal. Read [[Activity_VLC]] to learn how to install it.
-===Seamonkey===
-===Midnight Commander===
-Midnight Commander is a text-mode file manager. It is easily Sugar-coated for access from the Activities panel.[http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/images/mc-panels.png Screenshot]
-===Totem Media Player===
-The Totem media player is already installed in the OLPC XO-1. It is the engine that supports media on the system. Out of the box it does not support MP3 music or MPEG-4 video. A free driver can be downloaded to add MP3 compatability. A Sugar-coating can be applied to easily access the program from the Activities panel.
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-(Let's try to organize this page based on some criteria of completion as per the discussion [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Actvities].)